Re: TI-H: Linux ftp
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Re: TI-H: Linux ftp
From: Jon Olson <morph@jmss.com>
>Recompiling isn't easy, i'm gonna give you the same advice i've
>given others. Come on IRC (irc.slashdot.org #cyclone) and ask me how to do
>it. It's one of those fairly interactive things :>. Of course, if you've
>only got one box I guess that would be a bit difficult,
NP, I have several, but I'm cheap, so I only have one monitor :)
>but it's not something for beginners to attempt.
Linux beginners or computer beginners? I'm a professional
programmer, so recompiling stuff shouldn't be too difficult.
>Although I'm not a big fan of it, there's is something for X called KDE
>that looks similar to Windows, and gives you a fairly powerful shell.
>however, to do the most complex tasks you still need a command line (I'm
>sorry, but i think that's true of every operating system).
I don't mind command shells that much, I just dislike badly documented
stuff, and until I figure out how to drive the help system thats how things
look. In reality linux is far better documented than old DOS or Win98.
>If you wanna see what my X box looks like i've got a screenshot up at
What window manager is that?
>Now, I will admit there is very little UI conformity in X, for the simple
>reason that no single widget set is used throughout. I'm considdersting
>starting a movement toward UI conformity wherever possable
Sounds good to me, one reason windows is successful as a desktop
OS is that program designers know that most users will be confused
by UIs that don't conform to the standard (in general there are lots
of exceptions).
DK
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